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...Stephen Sondheim season in Washington, D.C., kills his customers and sells their ground-up bodies as meat pies. As the put-upon petty criminal (a non-singing role) in August Wilson?s King Hedley II, Mitchell plays a troubled man heading for tragedy. Even his roguish, blustery hero in Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award for Best Actors in a Musical) is a sardonic sort, toying with the temper of his favorite shrew...
...local grocery store by shoppers pelting her with bread rolls. For two years after Diana's death, Charles and Camilla were too radioactive to be seen together publicly. Slowly, though, they progressed from appearing at the same event to standing on the same dais to sharing a chaste public kiss. To make sure she remained anodyne, Parker Bowles rarely spoke in public and thus, unlike many of her future in-laws, avoided making a fool of herself...
...Japan, he argues, could cut off all shipping; South Korea could halt its many industrial and tourism projects with the North; the U.S. could again press for economic sanctions at the U.N. And the Chinese, Lilley says, could "go to the North Koreans, put their arms around their shoulders, kiss them on both cheeks and then whisper in their ears, 'Oh, by the way, your oil? We're gonna cut it 10% a month.'" Says Lilley: "Lets see what happens then. My bet is you'll see fuming and lots of shaking fists and million-man parades, and then they...
...couldn't kiss. A Wong character might lure men to delight or destruction, but she was forbidden the main movie signifier of romantic fulfillment: the kiss. In Piccadilly with Jameson Thomas and in The Road to Dishonor (the English-language remake of Hai-Tang) with John Longden, their kiss was cut by British censors "on moral grounds." Wong, quoted in TIME, proclaimed the furor much ado about bussing, "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." Both co-stars agreed. Thomas: "In England, we have less prejudice...
...There were occasions when Wong could be kissed: tenderly, sexlessly, by a child (in her first starring role, The Toll of the Sea) or, greedily, by a rapacious, besotted Japanese general (in her last starring role, Lady from Chungking). But, so often, directors sidled up to the big smooch, then found an excuse to abort it, as with the white Fletcher and the Asian Hayakawa in Daughter of the Dragon and with Loder in Java Head. Decades after her death, the poet John Lau wrote a verse titled "No One Ever Tried to Kiss Anna May Wong." That...